Bogdan Petrovich Gordeev ( rus, Богда́н Петро́вич Горде́ев, p=bɐˈɡdan pʲɪˈtrovʲɪtɕ ɡɐrˈdʲeɪf, a=Bogdan Pyetrovich Gordyeyev.ru.vorb.oga; 21 June 1894– 7 September 1914), also known as Bozhidar ( rus, Божида́р, p=bəʐɨˈdar, a=Bozhidar.ru.vorb.oga), was a Russian futurist poet of

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origin. Bozhidar (sometimes transliterated Bojidar) is also a

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given name.

Biography and literary career

Bogdan Petrovich Gordeev was born into the family of a professor of Veterinary Institute and a school teacher. He attended the Third Kharkiv Gymnasium, graduating with a gold medal in 1913. After graduating, Gordeev, strongly influenced by creations of

Velemir Khlebnikov Viktor Vladimirovich Khlebnikov, better known by the pen name Velimir Khlebnikov ( rus, Велими́р Хле́бников, p=vʲɪlʲɪˈmʲir ˈxlʲɛbnʲɪkəf; – 28 June 1922) was a Russian poet and playwright, a central part of th ...

, took his pseudonym and became intimate with a literary group " Centrifuge" ( rus, "Центрифу́га"), which was founded in the same year by

Boris Pasternak Boris Leonidovich Pasternak (; rus, Бори́с Леони́дович Пастерна́к, p=bɐˈrʲis lʲɪɐˈnʲidəvʲɪtɕ pəstɛrˈnak; 30 May 1960) was a Russian poet, novelist, composer and literary translator. Composed in 1917, Pa ...

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and

Nikolay Aseev Nikolai Nikolayevich Aseyev ( rus, Никола́й Никола́евич Асе́ев, p=nʲɪkɐˈlaj nʲɪkɐˈlajɪvʲɪtɕ ɐˈsʲejɪf, a=Nikolay Nikolayevich Asyeyev.ru.vorb.oga; July 10, 1889 - July 16, 1963) was a Russian and Soviet Futu ...

. In the beginning of 1914, Bozhidar, Aseev and Grigory Petnikov founded publishing house ''Liren (Лирень)''. Later in that year, the only book of poems by Bozidar – “Tambourine” ( rus, "Бубен", in the spelling of the author, mixing the graphics of the Latin alphabet and Cyrillic alphabet – “Byben”), was published. Bozhidar committed

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by hanging on 7 September 1914 in a forest near Kharkiv, partially due to the beginning of World War I. His prosody tractate and Byben's second issue were published posthumously. Bozhidar was also posthumously included in Khlebnikov's "Chairmen of the Globe" society by its founder: Khlebnikov wrote his name under "Martians' Trumpet" manifest in 1916.

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Bozhidar's Verses

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Biography and literary career

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